Deepak Hegde is the Seymour Milstein Professor of Strategy and Professor of Economics (by courtesy) at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the founder and Andrew Hamilton Director of Endless Frontier Labs, a program that transforms scientific breakthroughs into high-growth businesses; since 2019, its 390 graduate companies have collectively raised more than $3 billion. He is also Chief Mentor at Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship.
Professor Hegde’s research studies how entrepreneurs and innovators commercialize their ideas, with a focus on science- and technology-intensive industries. His work has been published in leading journals including Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, and Management Science. It has been featured in Nature, Harvard Business Review, and The Wall Street Journal. He serves as an Associate Editor of Management Science and teaches Entrepreneurship, Competitive Strategy, and Corporate Strategy in Stern’s MBA and Executive MBA programs.
His research has been recognized with the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship and the Thomas Alva Edison Research Fellowship from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He received NYU’s University Distinguished Teacher Award, which honors select faculty across the University for extraordinary commitment to and innovation in teaching. His other honors include Stern’s Distinguished Teacher Award for Pedagogical Innovation and Faculty Leadership Award, and the Academy of Management’s Innovation in Pedagogy Award for founding Endless Frontier Labs. Poets & Quants named him one of the world’s best 40 under 40 business school professors.
Originally trained as an engineer, Professor Hegde worked at Bosch and Abt Associates before earning his Ph.D. in Business and Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined NYU Stern in 2010.
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